Southward Ho with Mawson

Southward Ho with Mawson, also spelt Southward Ho! With Mawson, is a 1930 Australian silent documentary film directed and filmed by Frank Hurley about the first BANZARE expedition (1929), led by Douglas Mawson.

The film was a black and white silent film,[1] photographed and directed by Hurley[2][3] "under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government".[4]

The film was widely screened in cinemas across Australia, with the title variously recorded as having an exclamation mark after the word "Ho".[5] It was sometimes presented as a lecture which included the motion footage, lantern slides, sound effects on disc, and commentary by Hurley.[3] When the film was screened at the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney in August 1930, the Minister for Education encouraged further screenings for schoolchildren.[4]

A second film also made by Hurley, Siege of the South, was released in 1931, capturing the second voyage by BANZARE. This film had a soundtrack.[6]

References

  1. ^ Turnour, Quentin (2007). "Making Home of the Blizzard: Part 2". National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 4 September 2025. An earlier version of this essay was published in Journal of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2007.
  2. ^ A. F. Pike, "Hurley, James Francis (Frank) (1885–1962)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 14 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b Phillips, Morgyn (2012). "Extreme Film and Sound". National Film and Sound Archive. These images were on display at the NFSA in Canberra in 2012 as part of the Extreme Film and Sound exhibition. Prime Possum visited the exhibition and met NFSA curator Morgyn Phillips.
  4. ^ a b ""Southward Ho! With Mawson."". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 28, 897. New South Wales, Australia. 16 August 1930. p. 12. Retrieved 14 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "[Advanced search on title, 1 Jan 1930 - 1 Jan 1931]". Trove. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  6. ^ ""Siege of the South."". The Morning Bulletin. No. 20, 393. Queensland, Australia. 25 November 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 4 September 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
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